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Abstract We use two historical data sources – the Health and Retirement Study and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Study – to consider the patterns in older Americans’ severe disability and their use of long-term services and supports (LTSS) by age and socioeconomic status. We then use a dynamic microsimulation model to project how the effects…

Kids moderately increase the risk of falling short for households in their 50s. We just released a study that looks at the relationship between children and retirement security. Kids are expensive. Parents divert considerable resources to their children – both time out of the labor force when the kids are young and direct expenditures on…